Etikettarkiv: Colin McGinn

”Perhaps the most significant inaccuracy concerned artificial intelligence (AI). In 1956 the polymath Herbert Simon predicted that ‘machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do’ and in 1967 the cognitive scientist announced that ‘within a generation … the problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will substantially be solved’. Yet, in spite of all the hype and the dizzying increases in the power and speed of computers, we are nowhere near creating a thinking machine.”